Earlier this evening BU family member ROK apologized and explained for not providing the video stream of the ongoing FTC/BL&P Hearings. To his credit the head of BANGO and friends had taken the initiative to expose the PUBLIC hearing via a live Internet stream as a public service over recent days. It seems our country has not yet reached that level understanding where such important events are routinely delivered in realtime to the public. Then again it is not Wimbledon, Miss World Pageant or some POPULAR North American event.
The following comments represent part of the discussion which followed by ROK and BAFBFP.
Comment by ROK:
We live in a country where the culture is steeped in deprivation. The deprivation of one individual by another. I was so relieved to hear Undine Whittaker on TV last night and also Kirk Humphrey, complaining about how poor people are treated by Social Workers, because I didn’t think that people believed me when I related it.
We suffer from imposing value judgments on others and don’t understand that when we allow this and practice it, soon it will catch up on us and one day when such things happen, it turns out relatively dread.
Why do we do it? Why do we attribute bad things to people? It turns into self fulled prophesy. You are expected to fail, so you fail. One of the problems I have with religion is that it starts out with this notion that we are all sinners by nature.
These are things that need turning around. It smacks of a master trying to control his slaves by telling them that they are nothing, even when they are good.
We have to declare the truth and say that man is good by nature; boy, would we turn around a lot of the foolishness that we do to ourselves. It is like suicide or genocide. How much different are we from the Rwandans when they went through that period of genocide? The only difference is that we have not gone the full distance but we massacre one another everyday; our psyche is seriously damaged.
We thrive on the deprivation of others. It is the middle and upper class thing to do and the lower classes, aspiring to be middle and upper class, do it to themselves too. So it pervades the society and our poor people feel it the most; they are the footballs in the game. He who feels it knows it.
Comment by BAFBFP
Deprivation? A topic for David to consider.
The current account in Barbados is serviced in the main through sale of Bajan land to foreigners (at least for the past few years). This money is spent to service the needs of those who could afford expensive imports and overseas travel. This ability to afford comes from the exploiting of Barbadians as consumers and as members of a work force, followed by the necessity to approach the Central Bank for the same foreign money that is derived from the sale of land (and of course the exploiting of the Barbadian work force on the cheap). The current account is now down to two months of import cover. Overseas travel by public and private citizens will continue unabated and in a short while the PM will make his regular call for Barbadians to “Produce More”, with no consideration to what it is that we should be producing or how we are to get said products sold!
No sorry ROK this is not deprivation, this is Depravity…!
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